Advanced Binary Classification Recipes
Predict a yes/no outcome per entity — using complex multi-source logic, cross-event joins, calendar-aware conditions, and pandas workarounds.
Common advanced patterns
- Multi-source gap analysis — combine timestamps from multiple data sources, sort, and detect inactivity gaps
- Cross-event joins — match events across data sources using shared identifiers (order ID, ticket ID, loan ID)
- Calendar arithmetic — month-end calculations, weekday detection, fiscal quarter navigation
- Proportional analysis — compare activity ratios across time periods or channels
- Lifecycle tracking — session counting, new-user milestones, course completion stages
- Pandas integration — fall back to pandas DataFrames for complex merge/groupby logic
Ready-to-run solutions
| Recipe | Industry | Advanced Pattern |
|---|---|---|
| User Silence Detection | Digital | Multi-source gap analysis |
| IoT Sensor Offline | IoT | Sorted event gap detection |
| Mobile Payment Adoption | Fintech | New-user lifecycle |
| Biometric Login | Banking | Month-end date logic |
| Product Returns | E-commerce | Cross-event join (deliveries + returns) |
| Extended Warranty | Retail | Cross-event product matching |
| Positive Reviews | E-commerce | Cross-event join via extra columns |
| App Channel Shift | Banking | Proportional analysis, backward intervals |
| Weekday Purchase | Retail | Calendar weekday logic |
| Installment Defaults | Finance | Heavy pandas merge/cumcount |
| In-Game Purchase | Gaming | Session counting, lifecycle |
| Subscription Churn | Fitness | Multi-condition boolean logic |
| Course Completion | EdTech | Multi-condition timestamp matching |
See also
For simpler binary classification examples, see the basic Binary Classification recipes.